SAN JOSE, Antique – The Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) here will conduct a two-day medical and dental mission and information caravan that will benefit around 1,500 individuals from the province’s two towns.
“The PTF-ELCAC has chosen to conduct the medical, surgical and dental mission and information caravan in the identified conflict areas because of the continuing presence of the New People’s Army in San Remigio and Valderrama,” provincial consultant on peace and order Margie Gadian said on Monday.
The PTF-ELCAC, which was created last Sept. 26 through Executive Order 119 signed by Governor Rhodora Cadiao, will facilitate the caravan starting today.
Gadian said the Armed Forces of the Philippines with the Department of Health will bring their doctors for the said mission in Barangay Osorio, San Remigio town today and in Barangay Pandanan, Valderrama on Oct. 25.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development will distribute used clothing to the indigents while the Department of Labor and Employment will provide school supplies for pupils in the hinterland barangays.
Gadian said the provincial government will also provide medicines and vitamins to the community.
Help desks by the government front line offices would also assist those who would inquire or process some documents.
“We actually have been conducting a yearly medical-dental mission in the conflict areas but this year it is different because of the convergence of the different government agencies,” Gadian said, adding that the activity will target those living in conflict areas.(With a report from PNA/PN)
